The wing kit arrived by motor freight on Wednesday, April 21. The freight company had called me about a week in advance to tell me that it would be delivered sometime in the afternoon, and that it would come "freight collect."

The driver called me at 12 noon to say that he was about 30 minutes away, so I moved the vehicles out of the driveway. I had no idea what kind of truck it would be or how it would need to be unloaded. Vans says that the total weight of the two boxes is 390 pounds, so I was not sure how we would unload it.

The driver was really great. There was a lift gate on the back of the huge freight truck, and he used a pallet jack to move the boxes to the lift. Once on the ground, I used a piano dolly for one box, and the driver used a wheel cart under the spar box, and we set them in the garage.

I had to move some bikes out of the way, but eventually I was ready to start unpacking all of the airplane stuff!

The parts are all very well packed. The long box contains the spars as you would expect, but it also contains a bunch of the smaller pieces, as well as some parts which I will not be needing until I start working on the fuselage.

There are lots and lots of ribs.

I sure am glad I didn't have to drive all of the enormous rivets that are in the prebuilt spars. These things look to be extremely strong, and the gold anodized surface looks nice too!

My son helped by removing staples from the boxes. You never know when you might need some extra wood, right?

The kit contains bunches of sub-kits, like this one, which contains a bunch of the smaller pieces. There's a pair of fuel caps in there somewhere.

Starting to get organized. Did I mention about how many ribs there are? These are still tightly wrapped together.

This is a bag of bags. Each bag contains a part or some rivets, or a set of parts to attach the ailerons, or whatever. It took me about two hours to inventory the contents.